Gerd Kamp
Gerd Kamp
Since 2005 Gerd Kamp is working at dpa-infocom, the online and mobile subsidiary german news agency dpa. Currently he is the director of the dpa-newslab, the R & D unit of dpa . For more than 15 years he is working in various positions at the interface between editorial and technical, defining online and mobile strategies as well as building scalable Websites, mobile Solutions and mobile Apps.
During the last years he was highly involved in defining dpa’s implementation of IPTC's G2 standard. As it’s „first customer“ he and his team built a number of clients consuming the G2 stream, ranging from Tweetdeck like presentations to mobile apps.
Prior to dpa he worked in various positions at Bertelsmann New Media and arvato systems. Gerd Kamp holds a PhD and a graduate degree in computer science, focussing on Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web and Graphical User Interfaces.